Am Sonntag, den 23.10.2005, 14:42 +0200 schrieb Christian Neumair: > Am Sonntag, den 16.10.2005, 22:33 +0200 schrieb Christian Neumair: > > Am Sonntag, den 16.10.2005, 12:18 +0200 schrieb Christian Neumair: > > > Am Sonntag, den 16.10.2005, 12:14 +0200 schrieb Christian Neumair: > > > > Am Samstag, den 15.10.2005, 15:50 -0400 schrieb Andrew J. Montalenti: > > > > > Dear Christian, > > > > > > > > > > On Sat, 2005-10-15 at 21:18 +0200, Christian Neumair wrote: > > > > > > I'm sorry but because of b) I really have to insist on the > > > > > > unexpanded > > > > > > and the expanded version of a MIME description being two totally > > > > > > separate strings. I guarantee you that if we CCed > > > > > > gnome-i18n@gnome.org, > > > > > > many people supported my POV. > > > > > > > > > > Okay, I agree with you. How about we just clean up the redundancies > > > > > in > > > > > the strings, unless someone comes up with a way to get the benefits of > > > > > my proposal without messing with b) in your criticism. > > > > > > > > I'm very glad that we're approaching a common solution. I'd just like to > > > > point out that removing the redundancies would lead to new > > > > inconsistencies, i.e. we'd expand > > > > > > > > "WMV video" to "Windows Media Video" > > > > while expanding > > > > "PGP message" to "Pretty Good Privacy message" > > > > > > > > Again, the problem is that the long-comment tag suggests to have a > > > > semantic 1:1 mapping to the comment tag, which is not true. It's rather > > > > a format description. What tag name would you propose to reflect that? > > > > I'm not a native speaker, so I don't really count, but I'd go with > > > > "type-comment" or something. > > > > > > Oh, we could rather add another field, called "acronym-comment" (PGP) > > > and call the expanded acronym "expanded-acronym-comment" (Pretty Good > > > Privacy), and still keep around "comment" (Pretty Good Privacy message). > > > This would allow really all thinkable use-cases of MIME descriptions, > > > IMHO. > > > > I've decided to use acronym/expanded-acronym. Do you like the attached > > patch? Unfortunately, I had to bzip it because of mail size limits for this > > list. > > If I get no reply until wendsday, I will commit it.
Done. -- Christian Neumair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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